Jan-Lukas Else

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Promoting the use of Tor

Published on 2021-05-09 in ✍️ Posts

Short link: https://b.jlel.se/s/442

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You might have discovered two new links in the footer of my blog or homepage. “🔓 Connect via Tor.” and “What is Tor?”. I now try to promote the use of Tor with GoBlog.

Tor’s mission is as follows:

To advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding.

On my blog, I don’t actually publish any bad stuff or content that is illegal and my websites continue to be accessible through their public addresses. Nevertheless, I find Tor highly interesting from both an ethical and technical point of view.

Technically, Tor allows you to publish websites without the need for a public IP address or if the server is behind a NAT. Client and server can thus communicate from behind firewalls without revealing their identities.

From an ethical point of view, Tor makes it possible to bypass Internet restrictions, use the Internet anonymously, or protect against tracking.

Maybe I’ll try to program GoBlog to be suitable for a Tor-only blog in the near future.

Tags: GoBlog, Privacy, Tor

Interactions & Comments

Anon. A comment by Anon. Tor does not make you anonymous: https://2019.www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#stayinganonymous A large percentage of exit points are compromised in some way. https://restoreprivacy.com/tor/
maique @jlelse Well done! I’ve tried in the past to figure out… @jlelse Well done! I’ve tried in the past to figure out how to have my blog accessible through Tor as well, but always found it too complicated to enable with my limited time and knowledge.
jlelse @maique I think your blog will be accessible via Tor, as … @maique I think your blog will be accessible via Tor, as lang as you don't use Cloudflare. Providing an onion-service isn't really necessary.
Mardy I don't think there's anything ethical about the use of Tor, and while it may be that its usage is of help for dissidents living in a country unaligned with the U.S., for people leaving in the West Tor does only offer a false sense of protection. I guess you know that it's a project created by the U.S. government. For more information: https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/tor-project-the-super-secure-anonymity-network-built-on-deception-false-promises-and-heaps-of-libertarian-bullshit
Jan-Lukas Else My May '21 in Review And the next month is over, May. What happened? From my point of view not very much.At the beginning of the month I had a birthday, now I’m 22 years old, as my girlfriend always points out, twinumeral! She also baked me a very delicious cake. 😋️Other than that, I’ve spent a lot of this month, now the second month since I graduated from my bachelor’s degree, watching movies and videos on my new Chromecast and programming (even outside of work – where the learning is going very wel…
Jan-Lukas Else Mein Mai '21 im Rückblick Und der nächste Monat ist rum, Mai. Was ist passiert? Aus meiner Sicht nicht sonderlich viel.Am Anfang des Monats hatte ich Geburtstag, nun bin ich 22 Jahre alt, wie meine Freundin immer betont, eine Schnapszahl! Sie hat mir auch einen sehr leckeren Kuchen gebacken. 😋️Ansonsten habe ich diesen Monat, mittlerweile der zweite Monat nach meinem Bachelorabschluss, viel mit dem Schauen von Filmen und Videos auf meinem neuen Chromecast und dem Programmieren (auch außerhalb der Arbeit – da …